i'll be first to jump for joy when we find 2 or 3 others who are able and willing to do face-time stuff so that i can go back to other things again =)

i really consider this situation much like usability once was: there was a time when i was one of those people (there were a couple =) spear-heading usability in kde. it eventually gained traction as a concept in the project and people much, much better at usability than i am with more time and zeal for it than i have appeared and are now doing a really nice job with it. i've largely moved on to other things happy that usability, something we *had* to have covered, is now in _very_ competent hands. i still do usability stuff in kde, but i'm hardly as seemingly central to usability efforts in kde as perhaps i once was.

one day public appearances / interviews / plasma-esque stuff will be exactly the same, and i'll go find something else to pound my head mercilessly against. it's probably what i'm best at. hmm.. if i'm alpha-anything, perhaps i'm the alpha-headsmacker.